Nimia illæc licentia / Profecto evadet in aliquod magnum malum —This extreme licentiousness will assuredly develop into some dire disaster.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Naturally I love peace and hate war and all that pertains to war; I see nothing admirable in the ruthless career of Napoleon, save its finish.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

And into the city poured O not in least part from the countryside That tribulation, which the peasantry Sick, sick, brought thither, thronging from every quarter, Plague-stricken mob.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

In vacuo lætus sessor plausorque theatro; Cætera qui vitæ servaret munia recto More; bonus sanè vicinus, amabilis hospes, Comis in uxorem; posset qui ignoscere servis, Et signo læso non insanire lagenæ; Posset qui rupem et puteum vitare patentem.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

My words, who spakest now in Lombard phrase: 20 “Depart; [693] of thee I nothing more request.”
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

These were his principal secrets, but he had a host of others, that of predicting the winning numbers in lotteries; prophesying as to the future; softening marble and restoring it to its pristine hardness; of giving to cotton the lustre and softness of silk, which has been re-invented in our day by a chemical process.
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans

And I have my own tangible Hope, a child whose merry, sunny nature is living proof of how Paris was at home in the whirlwind.
— from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons

The imperative necessity, in landscape painting, of fulness and finish.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

Nature in loving pity had gently decked him with her daintiest hues, as if a world of lavish color would wipe away in a sweep of June-time beauty the memory of the lost drab years.
— from The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter

5. Martha Kaltoff , wife of Caspar Kaltoff, who is named in letters patent dated 1672, as lately deceased .
— from Scientific Studies; or, Practical, in Contrast with Chimerical Pursuits by Henry Dircks

p 2 212 The Naturalist in La Plata.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson